Hasan, Md Kamrul http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3567-2854
Kumar, Lalit http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9205-756X
Article History
Received: 20 February 2021
Accepted: 24 July 2022
First Online: 6 September 2022
Declarations
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: Ethical approval of data collection (approval number HE18-216) was obtained from the Human Research Ethics Committee of the Ethics Office, Research Development & Integrity, Research Division, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales 2351, Australia before data collection from the participants.
: Interviews and focus group discussions were used to collect data from the farmers. Data has been completely anonymized, and none of the participants are identifiable. Information sheet for the participants were read aloud to inform the participants about research topic, type of questions to be asked, estimated time of interview (20-30 minutes), freedom to withdraw or stop interview anytime and data anonymization. Informed consent was obtained from all participants before starting the interviews and discussions. However, illiterate participants were requested to keep one literate family member or neighbour with each of them during interviews to help the informed consent process. We did not collect informed consents from any legally authorized representatives of participants because the participants were adult, the questions were not physically, religiously, culturally or politically sensitive, and none of them was with a cognitive impairment, an intellectual disability or a mental illness.
: The authors declare no competing interests.